Latest data from AdDuplex shows the Lumia 520 continuing to dominate. While at the same time Windows Phone 7.x concedes more market share to Windows Phone 8. Nokia finally reaches 90% dominance with Windows Phone.

What’s the current Windows Phone landscape look like? There’s really no better way to tell than by looking at the data from AdDuplex. The cross-promotion network for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 gives us insight that we might not get from places like IDC or comScore. We’ve got the report for this month and so far the biggest trend for this month is that the Lumia 520 continues to dominate.

Let’s check out the rest of the data below.

The little engine that could

For a moment forget about 41 megapixels, optical image stabilization, quad-core processors and high-resolution displays. In fact, let’s forget all about the high-end Windows Phone devices out there and instead focus our attention on the Nokia Lumia 520. This device has probably done more for the platform than any other device. It’s incredibly important for Windows Phone to have flagship devices like the Lumia 920, 1020, and 1520. However, it’s the Lumia 520 that may be the single factor for platform growth this year.

Data from AdDuplex shows the Lumia 520 up 3.3% in terms of market share for Windows Phone devices. It now commands 26.5% of the pie, but could be as high as 29.9% if you group it with the Lumia 521 on T-Mobile US (which for all intents and purposes is the same device). That’s means nearly 30% of all Windows Phone devices currently in use are part of the Lumia 520(1) family.

Nokia domination

It finally happened. Recently we looked at some data from IDC that showed Nokia as shipping 93.2% of Windows Phone devices in Q3 2013. However, that’s just one quarter and data from AdDuplex gives us an overall picture of Windows Phone that includes past devices from previous quarters. The past few months we’ve seen Nokia inching towards 90% of market share in the data from AdDuplex, but it finally happened this past month.

Nokia now owns 90% of all Windows Phone devices out there. HTC is in second place with 7.0% of the market, while Samsung and Huawei cling to 1.8% and 1.3% respectively. Microsoft is in the final stages of acquiring Nokia’s handset division. Is it any guess why they’d go after that particular OEM?

Windows Phone 7.x won’t die

Despite Microsoft’s wishes (and ours), Windows Phone 7.x is still out there in fairly massive numbers. We’d love to see everyone get on board with Windows Phone 8 devices, but we understand that’s not entirely too feasible in the world of two-year contracts and/or expensive devices. Windows Phone 7.x is still on 24.7% of all Windows Phone devices, while Windows Phone 8 is on 75.3%.

Why? Both the Lumia 710 and 800 are out there in fairly large numbers/percentages. We’ve got 6.2% of all Windows Phone devices still being the Lumia 710, while the Lumia 800 is on 5.1% of devices. Combine the two with the Lumia 610 (4.0%) and you’re looking at 15.3% of all Windows Phone devices used this past month still running Windows Phone 7.x.

Country by country

It’s always fun to see which devices are popular in particular countries. AdDuplex pulls data from a handful of given countries each month and will sometimes mix it up with a new country or two. We’ll look at the United States, United Kingdom, and India today. The full AdDuplex report will be available on their blog tomorrow and you’ll see additional information for Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, Australia and Vietnam.

Surprise. The Nokia Lumia 520 is still the most popular device in the United States. Followed by the Lumia 822 and the Lumia 920. The most popular carriers for Windows Phone are AT&T (31.7%), Verizon (27.5%), T-Mobile (20.6%) and MetroPCS (8.4%). Both AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile slightly lost Windows Phone market share to MetroPCS, which is up 1.6% this month from 6.8%.

Over in the United Kingdom, the Lumia 520 reigns supreme. Is there a country where the Lumia 520 isn’t on top of the hill? Yes and that’s in Germany. But back to the UK and we see the Lumia 520 on top with the Lumia 800 in second with 11.6% of the market. That’s not too surprising if you recall how hard the Lumia 800 was pushed in the UK and that most people are locked into contracts with the device. We’ll see how the Windows Phone landscape shapes up in the UK over the coming months as the majority of those two-year contracts begin to expire.

India is home to over one billion people and is ready for explosive growth in mobile. Which is exactly why phones like the Lumia 520 exist, to become incredibly popular smartphone options for those in emerging markets that might be more sensitive to the overall pricing of a device. So, it’s again, no surprise that the Lumia 520 is the most popular Windows Phone device in India. It controls nearly half the market at 43.4%. In second place is the Lumia 720 at 12.7%. Another device that’s popular for its features to price ratio for a smartphone.

Looking ahead

The data we just looked at came from a one day period on November 22nd. As you know, that was the day the Nokia Lumia 1520 launched, so we’re not going to see it really make an impact on these AdDuplex reports for at least a month or two. However, it did manage to sneak into the 19th position for Windows Phone devices. AdDuplex recognizes 21 Windows Phone 8 devices in their data and the Lumia 1520 slipped ahead of both the Samsung ATIV S Neo and Huawei W2.

We’ve heard rumors of Nokia working on a successor to the wildly popular Lumia 520 called the Lumia 525. We don’t know much about the device yet in terms of specs or features, but if it’s building upon the same foundation and principles from the Lumia 520 it’s sure to be a success. No word on availability for that device, but we suspect it’ll rock future AdDuplex reports.

The holidays are coming and we can’t wait to see how Black Friday deals and Christmas gifts shape the Windows Phone landscape. What are your predictions?

Talk about geeks! Are you guys really comparing phones in sexy looks now? really? This is the new thing to argue about?

Let me ask you this: how many of you guys really showed the phone to your girlfriend in the bedroom and say: Ain't it sexy? Don't you just want to make sugar-crazy love while looking at it?

I have an 8x, bought this year. Love it, not for the sex appeal of it, but for the fact that it had the same specs like 920 at a lower price. One week after I bought it, I burried the phone in an otter defender case ( those things are awesome when it comes to protection) and been there since, only taken out for 5 min to be cleaned of residual dust every 2 months or so.

I hate the lack of interest in WP from HTC but I love that the 8x is always among the first smartphones to get an update. Now all the Nokians will find a motive to throw an air-fist, but I am just telling my personal opinion.

I don't care about the weight form or size of the phone that much, I care about what it can do. And since skydrive, hotmail, other microsoft services and I, we go back for some years now, I am perfectly fine with my phone and most likely my next one will be a 1520...need bigger pockets :))

The highest sold WP is the L520 but strangely, it's the phone with the least number of supported apps. Leave the apps. Even all the features in other Lumia phones are not supported in it. Specially the glance screen and the equaliser facilities. I admit it is a budget phone, meaning use of budget hardware and compromising with features. But the basic demands won't be satisfied, that's not expected from Nokia. At least i do expect more. L520 is a decent phone with many attractive features, like HERE services, IE Mobile, etc., but when asked for the glance screen and equaliser, Nokia surrenders speaking of less display memory and inefficient hardware to have equalisers. Ya, may be Nokia is right and they have a point. But can't they think about their customers and introduce these two features in the 520s- glance screen that'll work with the lesser display memory of L520 and the equaliser? Please Nokia, do something about this...

I was thinking all day today that for 1/5th the cost of an iPhone the 520 does about 95% of the more expensive device does. Outside the US and the Western European countries the cost of the device is is a big deal since most likely you have to pay upfront for the device - there is no such thing as a subsidy. So if you were to do a cost x functionality comparison between the 520 and the iPhone 5c, I beleive the 520 would win by a landslide. I think WP has the potential to grow like cazy in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe with a competitive device like the 520. Of course the 1020, 1520 etc are needed to help WP grow in the developed nations and help keep the developers busy in making quality apps for the platform.

One other thought was that the WP flagship devices a year later sell for quite cheap on Ebay and even the WPCentral marketplace - case in point Lumia 810, Lumia 822, Lumia 820, HTC 8X are all available for about $85-$150. And a lot of buyers for these devices are in Asia and Latin America based on some of the threads in the Forums here. This is a good way of getting people in those countries to upgrade to a device with more bells and whistles than the Lumia 520 but at about the same entry point from a cost basis.

The whole argument about apps, apps and apps especially on site like TheVerge is a bit hollow outside the developed world. Farmers get weather forecasts and market prices for their crops using the old Nokia phones in Asia and Africa. Mobile banking using SMS is huge in developing countries. So I believe that the next revolution in apps will come from folks using the WP devices in these countries where they can figure out some really meaningful apps that help the masses rather than just creating an entertainment consumption device which is what people do in the US for the most part with their smartphone.

Sorry for the long post. I believe WP has the right momentum, now the 525 better kick the Moto G's rear!

That WP 7.X figure? Blame it on mexican carriers and Nokia Mexico. They're still selling old phones for quite a price. The Lumia 900 is still up to $10,500 pesos (about $800 dollars). The nerve of some companies.

I bought my 520 in July, I decided for this one because I didn't knew much about WP8, so I didn't wanted to spend much money on something that I might not like it.

In October I bought more two 520 for my parents, and what I thought would be a waste of money because they wouldn't use it much, but I was wrong. My mom constantly watches TV on it, and my dad plays a lot of Dominoes.

As for me, this month I bought one 920 for me, and I had two friends that also bought a 920 and a 520 because they liked the experience when I show to them my previous 520.

So, 520 is really a very good phone to gain new costumers. For about 130-140€ you can buy it unlocked in Europe and it rock against the competitors. More storage (8gb expandable), much faster, easy to use, great offline GPS (Here Maps) and the lack of apps are starting to be less and less noticed, thank you Rudy Huyn, and to all the developers that contribute to this.

I believe that Nokia had setup a good strategy against a market full of Android and the premium Iphone. I cann't forget once I was comparing my 520 to an Iphone and the guy really upset to make shore that is Iphone was better, and was stunning when I told him the price of the 520. We couldn't believe that such phone would have a much better GPS, be equally fast in some tasks, and be like 1/6 the price of the Iphone... xD

Agreed. 100% Nokia-Microsoft will never has a chance to make a major impact on Android. Just look what has happened to iOS globally. The big difference is that iOS doesn't have low cost devices. I do expect Windows Phone to pass iOS globally in the next couple of years because of this. Microsoft needs continue support from OEMs if they hope to capture a much larger market share.

I just hope people with the 800 will go to wp8. I have a lot of friends that are sick to death of the dodgy nokia 800, plagued with battery, ie, phone, messaging problems and will never touch a wp again :(

There are people who just use a phone which happens to be a wp7, they don't care what they are using and may not even know the name of the device because they simply don't care, these people will always exist

There are people who just use a phone which happens to be a wp7, they don't care what they are using and may not even know the name of the device because they simply don't care, these people will always exist keeping old hardware alive without giving two shits about our little tech world... Lol

The 1020 just launched last month in a lot of countries. There was a really big delay between US release and the rest of the world for some inexplicable reason. That said, I don't really think it will have that big of an impact either way, I just hope it's enough for them to release a new iteration of it next year.

I just picked mine up the day before the $20 credits started going out (still got a code, though). I'm going to see how WP8 works for me as a prepaid "house" phone. If I like it enough, I might eventually get a 929 (if it's real) to replace my Verizon Galaxy SIII.

Im an HTC 8x owner who will probably switch to a Nokia for my next windows phone, I just wish Nokia would release a phone that is as sexy and thin as the 8x. The Nokia phones I've seen all seem to be pretty boxy

HTC is struggling enough on Android, where they sell much more, let alone being concerned with WP, a market where they can't compete with Nokia and even less when Nokia's gone and Microsoft takes total controle of the OS. I doubt they will even bother. Same with Samsung, though for different reasons.

Well it's variant of a much more selling global versions. They get that that throw out there design.
Problem was HTC had absolutely nothing to bring to the tablet other than hardware manufacturing. Also Nokia's brand is naturally way more than what HTC has ever been. You can argue was lumia 920 or HTC 8X better in its generation, but it didn't matter in the end as all it needed was a Nokia brand.

Nokia's brand was dead in the US and dying globally with the rise of iOS and Android. At the time HTC's brand was much stronger and was getting Google backing while Nokia was mainly remembered for the N9 classic phones, plus HTC was the only OEM seriously propping up WM. Nokia's strength at the time was NOT it's branding, design or hardware, it was the patents that MS wanted to control. Now that MS DOES control those patents, I wish they would give HTC a Nokia like deal.

If Microsoft is now part of the design, you will have the most awesome design ever. I personally find Microsoft are amongst the best designers ever. That it should be software or hardware, what they do is magnificent. So be thankful that they bought nokia ;)